We are pleased to announce the May event for PHP North East, Vagrant by @ichilton.

The event will take place at the Post Office in Pink Lane (@PostOfficeNE1) courtesy of PNE.  Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Laura Sharpe of Sharpe Recruitment, there will once again be a stack of pizzas for you to enjoy before the talk.  The event is free and open to all, but please sign up online so that we have an idea of numbers for the venue, and how much Laura needs to cough up for the pizzas.  Feedback, suggestions and ideas for future topics are welcome on our Google Group.

Please promote this event via Twitter or your own website to help us spread the word.

Vagrant by @ichilton

Ian Chilton is a 100000 year old, developer and sysadmin. With 10
years experience a developer in the North East, he is currently
working at Better Brand Agency in Stokesley, near Middlesbrough. His
interests are in PHP, Ruby/Rails, DevOps, performance, scalability,
deployment, security, electronics & Formula 1.

He can be found as @ichilton on Twitter or at http://www.ichilton.co.uk.

The talk will be a brief introduction to virtualization, why you would
want to use virtualization for development, an introduction to a tool
called "Vagrant" and a quick look at automated provisioning and
configuration management.

 After the talk, many of us will be heading over to The Town Wall pub opposive for a few refreshing beverages, please feel free to join us afterwards too!